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178 CHARTERED COUNTIES OF MARYLAND. [ART. XXVA
maintain, regulate and control county jails, and county houses of correc-
tion or detention and reformatories, and to regulate all persons confined
therein; to make proper provision for female and juvenile offenders.
(D) Advertising and Printing.
To provide for county advertising, printing and publishing, including
that of all ordinances, by-laws or resolutions adopted by the County
Council and of annual statements of expenses of the County Govern-
ment.
(E) Audits and Claims.
To audit the accounts of all county officers, assisting the State Auditor
or other State officer clothed with authority in the performance of this
duty; to provide for proof of all claims against the county before their
payment.
(F) Contracts and Bonds.
To provide for competitive bidding for any county work and the
making and awarding of contracts requiring bonds whenever proper.
(G) Drainage.
To provide, as far as necessary, for the draining of swamp and low
lands.
(H) Election Districts and Precincts.
To rearrange and create election districts and precincts.
(I) Courts and Records.
To provide for recording, indexing and keeping indexed all records
in the office of the Clerk of the Court, Register of Wills and of the
records of the Commissioners and County Council to the extent that
such matters are not provided for by general law; to provide for desig-
nating Justices of the Peace who may constitute a county court, the
keeping of its records, and to fix the compensation of all judges thereof,
and all officials connected therewith, and to require an accounting to the
county for all fees collected in connection therewith; and to fix official
bonds and regulate fees of the remaining justices in the county.
(K) Health, and Nuisances.
To prevent, abate and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases into such county; to regulate the places of manu-
facturing soap and candles and fertilizers, slaughter houses, packing
houses, canneries, factories, workshops, mines, manufacturing plants
and any and all places where offensive trades may be carried on, or
which may involve or give rise to unsanitary conditions or conditions
detrimental to health.
Nothing in this Article or Section contained shall be construed to
affect in any manner any of the powers and duties of the State Board
of Health, or any Public General Laws of the State relating to the
subject of health.
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